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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-05

SENSATIONAL DISCOVERIES As TO MRS. wADE's DEATH.
The killing OF Mrs. Ida Wade, stewardess on the
ship Canara, now lying at the foot OF Baltic street.
Brooklyn, was a mystery until Saturday after
noon, when the police arrested her husband,
Harry Wade, the steward OF the vessel, on sus-
picon Of being her slayer. He told very straight
forward story to the police He said he was awak-
ened By the report of pistol, and. finding his
wife not in bed. he jumped up and found her lying
on the floor with a revolver in her hand and
bullet through her brain. He at once called the
captain OF the vessel who slept In another part of
the ship. The captain, however, tells different
story to wades lie heard no shot, and when he
went TO the steward s room he found Mrs Wade
dead The blood on the wound was quite dry, and
he Judged from the appearance that She had been
dead some time. Capt Kellett, of the sixth pre-
cinct, and several physicians who have since
the wound was not self-inilicted. The woman they
say. could not possibly have held the revolver In
the position indicated by the bullets course.
Therefore it Is definitely concluded that the hus-
band, who Is described as very Jealous man, shot
her. IL was also learned that Wade has fire.
quently threatened TO kill his wife. Mrs Wade
was to have accompanied her husband on a two
years trip TO China In the Canara which was to
have sailed next week. The inquest will be held
to-day. Ida mad led an honest life since her mar
riage to Wade six years ago.
PATHETIC SEQUEL TO THE TRAGEDY
The mysterious shooting OF Mrs Wade has had a
pathetic sequel. William F. Clements, the aged
father OF the woman, who had been greatly excit-
ed and grieved, was stricken with apoplexy SUM-
nue., WflliamSburgh, and died In the afternoon in
the Eastern District hospital. He was rs years
old and had been Tor some time in delicate health
He was much attached TO his daughter Ida, and
when he heard OF her violent death ON Friday he
became almost frantic. When he subsequently
viewed the remains he wept bitterly, and had to
be removed from the room. The old man went d.
rectly to the Congress street police station, and
denounced his son-in-law, Stewart Wade, as the
murderer OF his daughter. He related to the cap
tain how Wade had frequently assaulted Ida and
threatened to take her life. "The wretch" he
exclaimed "shOt the poor girl when she had her
hands up, begging for mercy" On returning to
his boarding house in Williansburgh he talked all
the evening about the death of his daughter and
continued 10 accuse her husband OF taking her life
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning he was found un-
conscious In his room.
In her early life Ida became an associate of
some thieving girls and In 1873 she was arrested.
with Cassie Mack, for stealing some trimmings
from store in Fulton street. On the trial 1t was
shown that the girls had been operating exten-
Slvely, and each was sent up for three years and
six months. Ida, at her own request, was sent to
Sing Sing. so far as can be learned she has lived
an honest life since her release from prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-05

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-05

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Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
The Army Contractor.

The Boston Journal tells this story:
 Even in the serious business of inves- tigating Government co tracts during the war there were occasional gleams of humor. It was in the matter of a large purchase of horses which on their ar rival at the supply depot had been con- demned, that member of Congress, who was a friend of the implicated of- ficial, argued earnestly that the horses were all right when they left the place where they were bought, and that they must have been rendered unfit for ser vice solely by the long journey to the supply depot. Mir. Dawes, of the In vestigating Committee, who was con- ducting the examination, inquired, with D queer twinkle in his eyes:
 'How long time did this journey occupy?"
 "I don't know exactly; but good while'
 "Well," said MT. Dawes, ''about how many years, say?"
 "How many years9 What do you mean by such a question as that?"
 "Why, you say the horses were sound and young when they started, and be- came unfit for service during the jour- ney. It must have taken a loog time, because nearly the whole lot were con- demned for being over 21 years oldp'
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
A Child's Devotion.

Some years ago there was country gen. tleman in Derbyshire who met with terrible reverses, and was bereft of wife and son, only little daughter about 12 years of age being left to him, relates writer in Cas- selps Magazine for December. A neigh bor sent few chairs and couple of beds into an empty cottage so that the father and child might have Q roof over their heads, but could do no more, though she would gladly have kept the little girl, who, how ever, insisted that she must be at home in the new house to welcome her father and make him as comfortable as she could. The only possession she had clung to was @ small rosewood workDox, which had be- longed to her dead mother, and, when left alone to await her fathers return from the county town, she opened her work box and sat down with her needle like little old woman. It was a warm autumn afternoon when she thus settled herself, but in the course of an hour heavy rain came on, which lasted the whole evening, and 1t was long after dark when she heard her fathers weary foot steps approaching, and joyfully opened the door to let him in. He was wet through, and almost broken hearted, thoroughly beaten man, and the child's one idea was that cup of tea would comfort him. She had been provided with the tea and the pot to make it in, and kettle and everything necessary fo1 a simple meal, but her de- spair may be imagined when she found that there was not 6 particle of fuel in the house. The sight of her father sitting shivering, with his face buried in his hands, was inspiration to her, and quick as thought she broke up her workbox, pulled out the slight divisions for cottons, etc., set light to them on the hearth, added the thicker pieces as soon as the flames were strong enough, boiled the kettle, and made him
 the hot cup of tea. There was something sublime about that child's mother wit and devotion.
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
In a Drug Store.


 ''Take my advice and when you get prescription put up at drug store never ask how much it is, said one gentleman to another the other day. "Why not?" he continued. ''Because the clerk will size you up, as the boys say, guess how much money you have got, and charge you your pile." "What do you advise2" "Just this. When the urbane com pounder of medicines hands forth your prescription just look wise and lay down quarter. Now the chances are that the drugs in the preparation don't cost over a dime. He will look at the quar- ter, study minute, and then make up his mind that he has been foolish enough to sell you the same dose for 25 cents at some past time, and he'll take it and not say a word. Lay down a dollar, however, and it will be just the same. No change. Try it and see.'
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
THE OLD GAME AGAIN.
This T1me Venerable Jerseymnn Pays
 S3,OOO to Learn 'tBunko.o

'Why, how do2 I'm delighted to see you!' said young man on Broad street, Newark, to tall, venerable parsonage, untitled up to his ears in a shawl. The old gentleman was James H. Baldwin. wealthy resident of Mont clair and leading member of the local Presbyterian Church. He did not know the old man, but the latter assured him he was an old friend. He got Mir. Bald wins name, and after brief converse tion disappeared in the Post office.
 The old man had not gone half block when another young man tapped him on the shoulder, and addressing him by name, claimed to be the son of the late James Pinneo, president of the Nation al Newark Banking Company, and an old friend of MT. Baldwin, who died two weeks ago.
 After some talk MT. Baldwin accom- panied his new found friend to No. 52 Bank street, where Miss Mary E. Mock ridge conducts a fashionable boarding house, and where the young man said he had some valuable books, which he wished to show the old gentleman. They entered the parlor and were soon NAooA '" e*AN JoAA0o Dy c uuuu WuO ICpIC- sented himself to be the agent for a Philadelphia book firm.
 To make a long story short, the pair proceeded to spring bogus lot cry game on the unsuspecting MT. Baldwin, and finally induced him to go to bank near by and procure $3, GOO on his note for one month. He returned with the money in large bills, and the two 'bun- ko" men speedily relieved him of it, and on one preteXt or another, without at tracting his suspicion, got out of the house.
 When he had waited an hour he be- came suspicious and, rushing into the street, told his story to policeman. He was directed to Headquarters, and now the Newark police are looking for the sharpers.
 MT. Baldwin is seventy nine years old and estimated to be worth $1OO, ,OOO. He attended prayer meeting at Mont clalr church last evening. where he was seen by two Philadelphia detectives, who have been looking for the men who stole his money.-N y. Herald.
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
MORE WORDS OF PRAISE.
Rheumatism Blood Disease entirely cured.
 ROCHESTER, April 1, 1886. To the Pardee Medicine Co.,,


 To tAe Pardee Medicine O.,
 GENTs:-Allow me to say few words in praise of Dr. Pardee's Rheumatic Remedy; and if what have to say will induce others who are afflicted with neu- ralgia or rheumatism to use it, shall feel that have been the means of doing some little good to my fellow men. December 27, 1885, while at work in the shop, was taken suddenly with sharp, piercing pains and was compelled to leave the shop. The next morning I was unable to rise, and l grew worse daily although l was under the best medical treatment. But obtained no relief until I began using Dr. Pardee's Remedy, which did March 17th, and after using it three days, 1 could walk about the house. I continued to use it and improved rapidly every day. l am now ut work and entirely free from pain, and have gained five pounds in weight, but 1 shall continue the remedy until 1 feel sure the poison is out of my blood, for l am certain that rheumatism is blood disease. You are at liberty to use my name or refer anyone to me, for l shall be only too glad to recommend it to anyone who is suffering as was. Iknow it will cure any case of rheumatism, if used as directed.
 l am, very truly yours,
 GEORGE DOANE. Foreman at Goodger S Naylor's shoe factory, 65 South St. Paul street; resi-. dence, 6 Griffith street.
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
Lives Shortened by the War.

General Grant died at the age of 63 General Logan died at the age of 63. General Hancock died at the age of 61 General Mcclellan died at the age of 60. General Halleck died at 59. General George G. Meade died at 57. General George H. Thomas died at 54: General w. T. Sherman is the only one of the few greatest Generals of the war who has passed far beyond the fatal 63, and Far ragut, its greatest naval hero, died at 69 Grant, Logan, Hancock, and Mcclellan were men who, in the ordinary course of nature and in circumstances of peaceful life, would have lived, if not to extreme, at least to advance old age. They died years before the time naturally allotted to them Meade and Thomas were of more fragile mold, and yielded earlier to the weaknesses of broken constitutions and to the causes that shortened their lives. All the great Generals of the war who have died since it's close evidently met premature deaths. All died sudden ly, or after brief illnesses, and in each case, as in that of Logan, brain and ner vous complications precipitated the fatal action of the disuase. The case of Grants lingering disease and death from cancer appears to be an exception to these uni form facts, but it is not. The cancer was as much disease of the nervous as of the muscular tissues, and it was cer- tain trom its inception of a fatal termin- ation. The cause of death, if not death itself, came unexpectedly, surprisingly, and out of the order of nature. Un- doubtedly, the, weight of such vast re- responsibilities as high military con- mand 1mposes-the exhaustion of brain and nerve power in planning, in watch ing, in the labor and anxiety of the march, in the pain, excitement, solici- tude, peril, and mental torture of the battlefield, when every sense, percep tion, and power is stretched to it's ut most tension-must impair the energies of the best constitutions, and create points of weakness from which decay will spread and cause the fall of the en- tire structure earlier than the catastro- phe would otherwise have occurred. As it is with the commanders so it is with the soldiers who were in active service throughout the war. Their lives have, as rule, been shortened by at least three times the length of their term of service. Few of them have passed, or will pass, the fatal years that follow soon after the landmark of threescore, while the few who do cross it are far more than out numbered by those who do not reach it. -Chicago Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

has been sold for from $25 to $500 for ordinary Building Lots. Every "old settler" has realized handsome com. potency in disposing of a portion of his lands at fancy prices. Docks have been erected hotels built and added to from time to time Q line of seven boats ply regularly between st. An drew's Bay and other ports; and, alto gether. the outlook promises that St. Andrews Bay will in few years be- C., me the most tmportant city of the gulf coast. It possesses every natural advantage a deep bay-more than sixty five miles long with its various branches-with deep channels to the outer gulf, at once the most charming and most useful body of water on the coast safe harbor for the fleets of a
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

Lewis Brindle, Latrobe, Pa Elmira Kepple, J.atrobe, Pa J. W. McCoach, Santa Fe, N. M J. A. Davis, Pierce City, Mo Jas. B. Rowley, Olathe, Kan M. Mtnehan, Gurdon, Ark
 Geo. A. Copp, Fishers Hill, Va ". F. Brewton, Cedar Plain, o Wm. c. Sampson, Golden, Col x. B. Riblet, Shinnaton, w. Va M. J. Lunquest, Brigham, Ala Joel P. Keys, Colwich, Kan
 Jno. A. Kramer, Bloomsb B, Pa And. knudsen, Garfield, Kan Wm. F. Birkelbach, Shaft, Pa M0Tss M E LewarR X; anspR RsSssshs S@sneaS ainn m Mrs. J. A, Davis, Hillsboro, Ill
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

the necessary forms of busi- ness in applying for and re- ceiving free property, and the names are published without consultation and merely to represent the number who received Orange Grove tracts free, at our hands, Sn one day's business.
 M. McCann, Tyrone, Pa
 w. A. Kinsloe, Lockhaven, Pa Salem Hill, Schenley, Pa
 F. B. Knowles, Branford, Pa T. Murphy, Huntington, W. Va J. H. Baxtresser, Middlet'n, Pa W. L. Colvin, Beatrice, Neb
 Frank A. Shell, Ansonia, Ct A. lIarIeth Hutchtnaop. Minn
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

With broader business policy than has characterized any other southern corporation we have steadily appre-- ctated the relatire rdl,1e of land and people. We are holding for our own profit certain lands to be sold in the future the balance is offered free as air to all who apply in time.
 St. Andrews Bay Railroad and Land Co. acquired control of upward of 3OO,OOO acres of the most desirable lands in the State of Florida, situated around about the beautiful bay of St. Andrews, on the southwest Gulf coast. Before the war the town known as St. Andrews Bay was the home of many wealthy Teople, wfo had sought the shores of the beautiful bay as a lcca tion where could be found in their
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

Would that my Lord God would show you your sin and help you to fly from it, and your duty and help you to do it, so that when the last great terror shall spread its two great wings over our world and with talons of death shall clutch for thy soul, it cannot harm thee, for thou art in the safe dovecot of a Savior's mercy. What does the dove in the coop care for the hawk in the skys
 "Come in! Come in!
 Eternal glory shalt thou win."
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
The HLost SOulso of Siberia.

A graphic picture Of the condition of those tlnfortunates who are fitly de- scribed as "lost souls" is drawn in the work on Siberia by the Russian writer Jadrinzeff, says the London Post. But few of the exiles ever attain to the possession of "house," by which is meant 6 miserable hut. Most of them are in reality the bondsmen of the Si- berian peasants, by whom they are hired; that is to say, they live, and are satisfied when they can get money for drinking on holidays from their masters. But as the majority of the exiles are rogues and vagabonds by profession, who are averse to work, the number of fugitives is constantly in- creasing who steal, rob, and plunder whenever chance offers, and thus in tensify the natural antipathy of the settlers against the class of the de- ported. The peasants have every cause to be incensed against them, for, be- sides suffering from the malpractice of the convict class, they have to bear the cost of the erection and pres ervation of prisons for the exiles, organize hunts for the capture of the runaways, provide guards for them, and find the taxes which can not be raised from among the deported class. But the great gaps in the ranks of the ex- lies are caused by the almost systematic escape of the latter from forced labor and from the convict settlements. No less than fifteen per cent. of the de- ported escape during transport Many of them are shot down like wild beasts by the peasants and natives, and an observer of Siberian life made very true remark when he said that Siberia would scarcely have been able to over power the runaway exiles if the peas ants had not annihilated them.
 The most extreme measures to check the system of escape are the hunts by the natives, organized by the Russian Government. The native receives three rubles if he delivers the prison CT, dead or alive," to the authorities. The people are provided with good arms and ammunition, so as to make hunting the escaped prisoner perfect success.
 One of those few who managed to and when brought before the court he said: "For two years l have wandered about, have swan through rivers and seas, have crossed Siberian forests, passed through steppes and mountains, and no one touched me, neither man nor beast; but here, in my native village. l have been seized and cast into chains" The escapes from forced labor had be- come so common that the administra- tors of convict establishments were in the habit of calling out, when receiv- ing prisoners: Whoever wishes to stay, let him take clothes; he who wants to run away will not need them" It should be observed that the clothes left behind by escaped convicts, so as to guard against capture, are the per quiz tes of the prison authorities.
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

Those who have done bust ness with us. Ia one dGy the following list of applicants, secured Orange Grove tracts, ranging in size from 215 to 40 acres each. Space in good newspapers costs too much to give U list of du who have re ce1ved free property at our hands. Each one of the fol lowing list can testify, if he is so disposed, to the absolute fidelity of our methods of business. No correspondence has passed between any of them and this QnaQe. excsQt
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

world. Every species of vegetable ton in It's soft, Italian climate oysters in countless millions-the best In the world-rest in thousands of exhaust less oyster beds; timber easily access. ible and sufficient in quantity to fur. nish cargoes for years to the entire carrying capacity of Q nations fleet !; a climate that, both ,cintcr and sum mer,. is the absolute perfection of earthly delight: free from malaria, high, dry land, and beautifully lo- cated. Tn SC are among other good reasons why St. Andrews Bay is the most desirable 10 ,ation for a Florida home than the State can offer. and why this company has confidence in the wisdom of its present business policy
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
NO ASSESSMENTS,

Anyone insurins therefore for the current year will only be required to pay 8 cash pre- mium, which will cover all liability. In case of loss it is provided in the charter that if it cannot be amicably adjusted, it shall be referred to two disinterested persons, one to be chosen by each party, and if they cannot agree, they shall choose third and the de. cision thus rendered shall be final
 Information and circulars may be obtained by addressing
Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02
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Connecticut western news., 1887-02-02

lights of a Florida home. During the
 war the town was bombarded by a Federal fleet and nearly swept out of existence. The inhabitants fled, aban-
 Goning their shattered homes to the torch and pillaEe of the enemy, and not until about ten years ago was there
 any attempt made to reoccupy the town. This-Company began active operations a little more than year ago. Since that time there has been the most remarkable boom" created for St. Andrews Bay that has ever been known in the Flower State. Last winter moro than 5000 visitors from all parts of the country reached that point in quest of Florida homes. Busi- ness and dwelling houses have been erected by the hundred. Property se-